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Student nearly loses ear after piercing goes wrong

Bianca Hart being treated in hospital after an ear piercing went disastrously wrong. (Picture: Masons)

Warning: Really gross ear pics below

A student nearly lost the top half of her ear after a piercing went purple and started oozing pus – leaving her in such excruciating pain she was in hospital on morphine for a week.

Doctors told Bianca Hart, 18, of Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, that she was lucky not to lose an ear, and the tattoo parlour is now being investigated.

The botched £10 operation left Bianca to attend Fresher’s Week with a bandage round her head, vomiting constantly from the infection.

When surgeons cut into her ear to relieve the pressure, they found that the infection had eaten into the cartilage, and had to operate on the infected area.

Bianca, who is studying psychology and criminology at Nottingham Trent University, said: ‘The pain was just so much, it was excruciating. The piercing was disgusting as well, it was bright purple and oozing pus.

‘By the end I was throwing up constantly because it was so bad.

‘They operated and found that my cartilage had just disintegrated. The surgeons just had to try and build my ear again.

‘I can’t even look at my ear because it just reminds me of that horrible time I went through.

‘People keep laughing at me because I was in hospital for a week after having an ear piercing. It just shouldn’t happen.’

‘When it didn’t settle I went back to the shop and she said it ‘needed to breathe’.

‘She took it out and put a tongue bar in which was apparently the worst thing she could have done.